1. Myron Healey began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career spanning more than half a century.
17 Facts About Myron Healey
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Myron Healey served in World War II as an Air Corps navigator and bombardier, flying in B-26 Martin Marauders in the European Theatre.
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Myron Healey portrayed the bandit Bob Dalton in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.
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Myron Healey appeared seven times as Captain Bandcroft in The Adventures of Kit Carson.
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Myron Healey played the outlaw Johnny Ringo in the western television series Tombstone Territory, with Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister, in the episode "Johnny Ringo's Last Ride" with a teleplay by Sam Peckinpah.
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Myron Healey appeared in an episode of the children's western series Buckskin, which aired on NBC from 1958 to 1959.
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Myron Healey was a semi-regular on programs produced by Gene Autry's Flying A production company: Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Jr.
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Myron Healey guest-starred on the crime drama with a modern Western setting, The Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield, and in the Western set in the 1840s, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin.
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Myron Healey appeared in an episode of the second season of Zorro.
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Between 1960 and 1963, Myron Healey appeared five times on the NBC western Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller.
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Myron Healey appeared ten times on another NBC western, The Virginian, and four times on Laredo.
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In 1970 Myron Healey appeared as Wardlow in the TV western "The Men From Shiloh" in the episode titled "Jenny".
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Myron Healey played that role for one season when Douglas Fowley, the regular Doc Holliday on the series, was away on a movie job.
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Collectively, Myron Healey appeared in some 140 films, including 81 westerns and three serials.
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In 2005, Myron Healey broke his hip in a fall and never recovered.
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Myron Healey died at the age of 82 at a hospital near his home in Simi Valley, California.
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In 2000, Myron Healey received a Golden Boot Award for his contributions to Western films and television programs.